Yes, yes. Making enough money to keep working on a project without the company going bankrupt is milking income. They're very up front about the fact that if you just want the game, buy it on Steam and you'll get everything once it's properly tested and implemented. Patreon subscribers are literally funding the project's ability to continue, and even now it seems to be just barely afloat. What's their alternative? Convincing an investor to invest in a porn game? Not likely. Spending a few hundred grand of their own money to develop the game behind closed doors and then release it all at the end? I'd be thoroughly impressed if they had that burning a hole in their pockets like this.
Honestly, how much money do you think it costs to make a game like this? How much does the software cost per month? How much does the voice acting cost? How much is taken out as taxes, both for the business and the developers? How much is eaten in fees? By the time money goes from Team Carnal to a developer, easily more than half of that money has been eaten up in fees and taxes alone. Potentially over two thirds.
Team Carnal is taking a huge risk and a massive personal pay cut to work on this project, and all they've really gotten from us is grossly uninformed, incredibly entitled responses like yours from people who have no idea what's actually involved in a development project.
What has team carnal delivered since their initial release in October?
- Continual updates and improvements to the ingame world, including dramatic increases in the level of detail.
- Continuing tweaks, improvements, and additions to the game's combat and hazards.
- New sex scenes and updates to how the game handles them, in preparation for rolling out a major planned revamp to how those scenes work. (Said revamp has been on the roadmap since the beginning.)
- New NPCs, several of which are fully voiced. (Have you ever commissioned voice acting? That's legit expensive, especially for an AO title.)
- New quests, and improvements and updates to the existing quests as the game world changes.
- Actively maintaining a community presence and keeping their patrons (and discord members) informed about what's happening with the project and where it's going.
- Two updates a month, every month, for nine months and counting.
Edit: I said back in March that it was too early to tell how the project would do. That I'd give them three months before I could make a call on whether they're capable of making the project, and six to make a call on whether they're going to drag it out endlessly. Thus far, three months down the line? They certainly seem capable of delivering on their promises. I'll make my personal call on whether the project is likely to drag out in September.
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